Mark Rader
Software Support Engineer I at Qualtrics
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Rader is a pragmatic software support engineer and developer based in Salt Lake City with 11 years of hands-on experience spanning application development, hardware debugging, and frontline technical management. He blends customer-facing technical account work with backend C#/.NET web development and practical hardware repair skills, enabling him to translate complex issues for both engineers and non-technical stakeholders. Mark has contributed security-focused code to the widely used OWASP ZAP extensions, adding active scan rules for memory and format-string vulnerabilities—an uncommon intersection of application development and security tooling. His background tutoring statistics and managing service teams informs a patient, communicative approach to troubleshooting and documentation. Committed to clean, reusable code and clear SOPs, he brings a technician’s attention to detail alongside emerging software engineering depth.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts - BA Philosophy at Fort Lewis CollegeBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Weber State UniversityAssociate's of Science Computer Science and Information Systems, Associate's of Science Computer Science and Information Systems at Salt Lake Community College
Github Skills (7)
javas10
zap10
security-scan10
buffer-overflow10
java10
security-scanner10
security10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zaproxy/zap-extensions
Jul 2015 - Dec 2015
ZAP Add-ons
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:22 commits, 35 PRs, 59 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Mark contributed significantly to the security scanning capabilities of the ZAP extension. Their work involved implementing and modifying active scan rules for identifying vulnerabilities such as Format String errors, Buffer Overflows, and Integer Overflows. This included writing code to detect potential security flaws and updating help documentation for the active scan rules. The user's contributions focused on enhancing ZAP's ability to detect and mitigate web application security risks.
owasp-zapsecurity-toolsadd-onssecuritydast
msrader/cii-best-practices-badge
Jul 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:87 pushes, 7 branches in 7 months
infrastructureinitiativecore-infrastructurebadgeterraform
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